Police launch urgent search for missing 17-year-old boy

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 18 Oct, 09:31 · Archive

Thames Valley Police are appealing for help to find a 17-year-old boy who went missing nine days ago.

Thames Valley Police have launched an urgent search for a 17-year-old boy named Yahya, who was last seen on Friday, October 9, nine days before the public appeal was issued on Saturday, October 17.

The boy is from the Swanley area of Kent but has links to Bladon and West Oxfordshire. He is described as approximately 5ft 4ins tall, of slim build, with shoulder-length black braided hair and brown eyes. It is not known what he is currently wearing.

Police issued a public appeal with a photograph, asking anyone who has seen Yahya or has information about his whereabouts to come forward. Anyone with information can contact Thames Valley Police by calling 101 or via their website, quoting reference 43260539592.

How it is being reported

• Concern as urgent search launched for missing boy in OxfordshireAn urgent search has been launched for a missing boy with links to West Oxfordshire.Oxfordshire Guardian · 18 Oct, 09:20
• Concern as urgent search launched for missing boy in OxfordshireAn urgent search has been launched for a missing boy with links to West Oxfordshire.Oxford Mail · 18 Oct, 09:20

In this story: Yahya · Thames Valley Police · Swanley · Kent · Bladon · West Oxfordshire

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